Tag: data catalog
Collibra, Tableau Team on COVID Data Catalog
Data intelligence vendor Collibra has compiled a COVID-19 data catalog combining open data sets, business domain glossaries and other reference data that have been integrated with Tableau’s COVID-19 Data Hub. The da Read more…
Google Enters Data Catalog Business, Updates BigQuery
Google today rolled out a data catalog that will eventually give customers visibility into all of their data assets in the Google Cloud and beyond. It also bolstered BigQuery with support for materialized views and a new Read more…
Coming to Grips with COVID-19’s Data Quality Challenges
The COVID-19 pandemic is generating enormous amounts of data. Large amounts of data about infection rates, hospital admissions, and deaths per 100,000 are available with just a few button clicks. However, despite the lar Read more…
Alluxio Claims 5X Query Speedup by Optimization Data for Compute
Ever since Alluxio emerged from the AMPLab, its focus as a data orchestration layer has been to grease the wheels for data initiatives by making remotely stored data appear to be stored locally. Today the company took it Read more…
Hitachi Vantara Buys Cataloger Waterline Data
Hitachi Vantara is acquiring data catalog startup Waterline Data as the U.S. subsidiary of the Japanese industrial giant seeks to meet growing demand for automation frameworks for data lake management via its AI-driven D Read more…
Using a Data Catalog to Support Precision Medicine
In the first story of this series, we made the case for applying common data governance (DG) and tools in organizations to help with the quality and privacy of consumer data. To have the best chances of success, we sugge Read more…
Unifi Deal Expands Boomi, Dell’s Data Prep Tools
Boomi’s acquisition of data cataloger Unifi Software buttresses the automated IT strategy of the buyer’s parent, Dell Technologies, by combining Unifi’s data tools with Boomi’s existing integration and data manag Read more…
Syncsort Doubles Down on Data Quality with Pitney Bowes Buy
Here’s a stat to ponder: With its $700-million acquisition of Pitney Bowes' software and data business now complete, Syncsort becomes the second biggest vendor in the data quality space, per 2018 figures from IDC. But Read more…
Enterprise-Wide Data Governance through Governed Global Catalogs
In our previous story, we asserted that consumer data, arguably today’s most valuable asset, must be of good quality and be protected by safeguards to comply with privacy regulations. We demonstrated how master data ma Read more…
Data Catalogs Seen as Difference Makers in Big Data
You can't get insights using big data techniques without the data. That much is clear. But where, exactly, is the data you need? Where does it reside, and how can you get access to it? The answers to those questions are Read more…
Why Investing in Your Team’s Data Culture Could Be the Most Important Money You Spend
Most executives today recognize the need to become data-driven and view their “digital transformation” initiatives as the means to do so. More technology means more data, right? Often, these efforts stumble and fail Read more…
Why You Should Strengthen Your Retail Analytics Strategy with Multiple Versions of the Truth
With an influx of data into retailers’ environments—from e-commerce, social media, in-store data and supply chain technology, to name a few new sources—structuring how to interpret that data and then act on it to c Read more…
Tools Emerge to Comply with California Data Law
As California prepares to roll out a consumer privacy law regulating how businesses handle customer information, vendors are introducing new compliance tools designed to locate and catalog sensitive data covered under gl Read more…
Industry Speaks: Big Data Prognostications for 2019
"The future isn't what it used to be" the French poet Paul Valery wrote nine decades ago. The same could be said for the big data trend that began in the mid '00s. We're not where many thought we'd be, but the future, in Read more…
Dremio Fleshes Out Data Platform
Dremio today rolled out a version 3.0 update to its multi-purpose data analytics tool with new features like support for Kubernetes, a built-in data catalog, and support for Teradata, Elasticsearch, and Microsoft ADLS da Read more…
Analysts Get A Guiding Hand
It can be tough knowing what you can and cannot do in analytics. While it may be possible to build a query that considers a person's race during a credit check, it is also illegal (not to mention unethical). Now data cat Read more…
Dude, Where’s My Database? And Other GDPR Questions
Is your organization ready for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which goes into effect in exactly one month? If you're like most organizations, you still have a lot of work to do over the next 30 days – e Read more…
Five Tips for Winning at Data Governance
By now, you've hopefully realized that having a great data analytics strategy also requires having a good data governance strategy. After all, if your data is ungovernable, then the analytics you're running atop it will Read more…
Tech’s Hottest New Trend: Data Governance
What's the hottest new trend in information technology? If you said "artificial intelligence," give yourself partial credit, because AI definitely is hot. But for technology decision-makers in the business world, there's Read more…
Data Catalogs Scale in the Cloud
Data cataloging software for Hadoop and other big data systems emerged as a hot item at last year's Strata + Hadoop World Expo. Among the proponents of data cataloging, which is designed to help classify and organize Read more…
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